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Mélissa Laveaux – Radyo Siwèl
The Parisian Canadian offers bewitching songs of love and HaitiHaiti has long been one of the poorest nations in the western hemisphere – and perhaps the most unstable, with a history littered with...
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Still On The Run: The Jeff Beck Story
Bio-doc can’t quite catch up with the elusive guitar legendPerhaps the key to this engaging but at times frustrating portrait of one of rock’n’roll’s most canonical guitarists comes when Aerosmith’s...
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Bobbie Gentry – The Girl From Chickasaw County
Delta singer/storyteller’s Capitol LPs boxed and generously supplementedIf there’s one question more perplexing than why Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge in “Ode To Billie Joe”,...
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Neil Young on his greatest hits: “The songs are on their own little trip, I...
Shakey recalls the creation of some of his classic songsPhoto by Gems/RedfernsOriginally published in Uncut’s December 2004 issue In this epic archive feature, Neil Young himself explains the making of...
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David Attenborough – My Field Recordings From Across The Planet
The naturalist’s rediscovered tapes of indigenous musicPhoto BBC/Sarah Dunn In his 2001 book Songcatchers, Mickey Hart engagingly describes his extracurricular adventures away from the Grateful Dead,...
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Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Miri
Six strings good, four strings better on Malian virtuoso’s fifthPhoto by Thomas DornOn the cover of Bassekou Kouyate’s fifth album, his huge hands grasp a tiny instrument that to the uninitiated looks...
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Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi – There Is No Other
An acoustic ‘side project’ of some potencyPhoto by Karen CoxRhiannon Giddens has yet to record a ‘proper’ follow-up to her brilliant second solo album Freedom Highway, but there has been no escaping...
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Manu Chao – Clandestino / Bloody Border
Laptop revolutionary’s solo debut, revisited 20 years onPhoto ©Youri LenquetteManu Chao was in a bad way when his band Mano Negra broke up in 1994. Intended as a potent Gallic equivalent of The Clash,...
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